Wrong. The deaths of the innocents in Gaza rests squarely on Hamas's shoulders. Hamas are totally responsible for their deaths.
Israel, as you well know, pre-warns civilians to leave the area where the rocket launchers are before an air-strike targeting the rocket launchers and missile stores. Civilians have the choice to stay or leave. If they stay it is their choice to be human shields, unless Hamas of course are forcing them to stay.
If the IDF spots civilians around targets they will not strike that area, even though the rocket launched may well do damage within Israel.
Hamas are disgusting filthy scum. You should be ashamed to support them.
Squarely? So the jooos have no blame at all? See, again, how do you reason with such unreasonable people?
Well, exactly how are the Israelis to blame when Hamas uses them as human shields? Please be specific.
The failure to acknowledge the humanity and legitimate interests of people on the other side has led to cross-demonization. That results in a series of military escalations that leave both peoples worse off.
Israelis are absolutely correct that they have a right not to be hit with rockets by Hamas, not to be kidnapped, not to be subjected to terrorist bombings. And Palestinians are absolutely right that they have a right to a state, a right to run businesses and import goods, a right to live in freedom rather than relegated to second-class citizenship in their own land.
Both sides have plenty of good people who just want the best for their children and their communities, and also plenty of myopic zealots who preach hatred. A starting point is to put away the good vs. evil narrative and recognize this as the aching story of two peoples — each with legitimate grievances — colliding with each other.
Meanwhile, the Israeli right undermines the best partner for peace Israel has had, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, and IsraelÂ’s settlements are a gift to Palestinian extremism. These days, in both Gaza and Jerusalem, hawks are in charge, and they empower each other.
Israeli leaders, starting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, think that the way to protect their citizens is to invade Gaza and blow up tunnels — and, if Gazan civilians and children die, that’s sad but inevitable.
Israeli leaders, starting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, think that the way to protect their citizens is to invade Gaza and blow up tunnels — and, if Gazan civilians and children die, that’s sad but inevitable. And some Gazans think that they’re already in an open-air prison, suffocating under the Israeli embargo, and the only way to achieve change is fire rockets — and if some Israeli children die, that’s too bad, but 100 times as many Palestinian children are dying already.
In fact, weÂ’ve seen this movie before: Israel responded to aggression by invading Lebanon in 1982 and 2006, and Gaza in 2008; each time, hawks cheered. Yet each invasion in retrospect accomplished at best temporary military gains while killing large numbers of innocents; they didnÂ’t solve any problems.
Likewise, Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.
Some Palestinians understand this and are trying this strategy, but too many define nonviolence to include rock-throwing. No, that doesnÂ’t cut it.
So it would be like the blacks in the 1960's who rioted. Whites tried to demonize them but who was wrong? The whites who treated blacks like second class citizens or the blacks who had enough and practiced civil disobediance?
Just the fact that I have to give you one or two examples tells me you have a problem. You need me to tell you that the jooos are partially responsible for the situation they find themselves in?
Anyways, I hope the Palestinians start practicing Ghandi or MLK style protests and really expose the jooos for the oppressors they really are.
